Karen Habercoss is the Vice President, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for The University of Chicago Medicine health system. She is responsible for the enterprise strategy and operations of the health system Information Security and Privacy Office. Karen has a Master’s Degrees in Business Administration and Clinical Social Work. Prior to her current role, she worked in the Compliance Department at The Joint Commission and as the Corporate Compliance and Quality Officer for PRS, LLC. Karen holds the following certifications: CIPM, CDPSE, AIGP, CCEP, CHC, CHPC, and CHRC and maintains her licensure in clinical social work. She is the current chair of the HIMSS Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Security Committee and has been an active member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Compliance Officers’ Forum for many years where she is the chair-elect of the Steering Committee. Karen is the past co-lead the Privacy-Security Task Group for the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group. She speaks regularly on the topic of Privacy-Security collaboration strategies to reduce enterprise risk.